->''"[[TitleDrop The Invaders]] - alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination, the Earth. Their purpose: to make it THEIR world. David Vincent has seen them. For him, it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed, deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the invaders are here; that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun."''\\--The OpeningNarration

'''The Invaders''' is an American ScienceFiction TV show.

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->''"[[TitleDrop The Invaders]] - alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination, the Earth. Their purpose: to make it THEIR world. David Vincent has seen them. For him, it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed, deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the invaders are here; that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun."''\\--The OpeningNarration

* ClearNyName: In "The Trial" one of Vicnent's friends for killing a man. In a subversion, the goal is to show that his friend didn't kill ''a man'', but an alien, and thus didn't commit murder the legal definition term as he didn't kill a human being.

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* ClearNyName: ClearMyName: In "The Trial" one of Vicnent's Vincent's friends for killing a man. In a subversion, the goal is to show that his friend didn't kill ''a man'', but an alien, and thus didn't commit murder the legal definition term as he didn't kill a human being.

* ClearNyName: In "The Trial" one of Vicnent's friends for killing a man. In a subversion, the goal is to show that his friend didn't kill ''a man'', but an alien, and thus didn't commit murder the legal definition term as he didn't kill a human being.

* ThemeTune: The show's theme, composed by Dominic Frontiere[[note]]and originally intended for ''The Unknown'', a SpinOff of ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' that never went beyond the unsold pilot stage[[/note]], became famous and is still eerily effective.

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* ThemeTune: The show's theme, composed by Dominic Frontiere[[note]]and originally intended for ''The Unknown'', a SpinOff of ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' that never went beyond the unsold pilot stage[[/note]], became famous and is still eerily effective.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Subverted, at least to the extent that Vincent does eventually manage to convince some humans in positions of authority that the aliens are real, most helpfully wealthy industrialist Edgar Scoville.

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* GrandFinale: Not officially, but the last-filmed episode ends on a moderately hopeful note, with important human officials becoming convinced of the reality of the alien invasion.

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* LaResistance: As noted above, in the second season Vincent and Scoville become the nucleus of one of these.

While the idea of [[VoluntaryShapeshifting disguised invaders]] was already an old one, ''The Invaders'' may have been the first American show to present the matter seriously, as opposed to the more goofy previous SF movies and TV shows. Good writing and serious acting made it effective ParanoiaFuel and the show holds up well even today.

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While the idea of [[VoluntaryShapeshifting disguised invaders]] was already an old one, one (the ''Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' website suggests that the series was made too late to be successful), ''The Invaders'' may have been the first American show to present the matter seriously, as opposed to the more goofy previous SF movies and TV shows. Good writing and serious acting made it effective ParanoiaFuel and the show holds up well even today.

->''"[[TitleDrop The Invaders]] - alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination, the Earth. Their purpose: to make it THEIR world. David Vincent has seen them. For him, it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed, deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the invaders are here; that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun."''-->--The OpeningNarration

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->''"[[TitleDrop The Invaders]] - alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination, the Earth. Their purpose: to make it THEIR world. David Vincent has seen them. For him, it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed, deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the invaders are here; that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun."''-->--The "''\\--The OpeningNarration

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